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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

colincochrane.com

Colin Cochrane

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

413 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

512 ms

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About Website

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Colin Cochrane is a Software Developer based in Victoria, BC specializing in C#, PowerShell, Web Development and DevOps.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colincochrane.com page load time and found that the first response time was 413 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

colincochrane.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.colincochrane.com

413 ms

Global.css

323 ms

bootstrap.min.css

846 ms

main.css

500 ms

responsive.css

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Colincochrane.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Colincochrane.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.3 kB (73%)

Content Size

456.3 kB

After Optimization

124.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Colincochrane.com main page is 456.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 252.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 16.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 48.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Colin Cochrane needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 173.5 kB

  • Original 252.4 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 78.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 173.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 107.5 kB

  • Original 130.1 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 22.6 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Colincochrane.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 107.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (50%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colin Cochrane. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.colincochrane.com

www.colincochrane.com

413 ms

Global.css

Global.css

323 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

846 ms

main.css

main.css

500 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

317 ms

shCore.css

shCore.css

326 ms

shThemeDefault.css

shThemeDefault.css

332 ms

en-us.res.axd

en-us.res.axd

389 ms

01-jquery-1.9.1.min.js

01-jquery-1.9.1.min.js

1029 ms

02-jquery.cookie.js

02-jquery.cookie.js

568 ms

04-jquery-jtemplates.js

04-jquery-jtemplates.js

782 ms

05-json2.min.js

05-json2.min.js

583 ms

blog.js

blog.js

860 ms

XRegExp.js

XRegExp.js

989 ms

shCore.js

shCore.js

1058 ms

shAutoloader.js

shAutoloader.js

1061 ms

shActivator.js

shActivator.js

1056 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

921 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

998 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1327 ms

ga.js

ga.js

76 ms

logo.png

logo.png

353 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

393 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

318 ms

googleplus.png

googleplus.png

386 ms

rss.png

rss.png

261 ms

image.axd

image.axd

354 ms

image.axd

image.axd

391 ms

image.axd

image.axd

405 ms

image.axd

image.axd

410 ms

image.axd

image.axd

422 ms

image.axd

image.axd

459 ms

image.axd

image.axd

462 ms

image.axd

image.axd

464 ms

rssButton.png

rssButton.png

703 ms

image.axd

image.axd

491 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

690 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

203 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

171 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

152 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

183 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

227 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

199 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

209 ms

error404.aspx

error404.aspx

227 ms

Accessibility Review

colincochrane.com accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

colincochrane.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

colincochrane.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Colincochrane.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Colincochrane.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

colincochrane.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Colin Cochrane. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: